Baldness treatments/cures/queries in here

BuyingorSelling

Has anyone gone to one, if so where, for what treatment and did you find it good

Thinking of trying the one in george's street to maybe get some wonder shampoo to stop the auld balding process

st_andalou

Hmm, I'm not sure about clinics.

There are only two things on the market proven to stop hair loss. They are rogaine (which is available from the pharmacy) or Propecia (which is only available on prescription).

If you want a shampoo, Nizoral is believed by some to be beneficial to those suffering from hair loss even though it is originally prescribed as anti-dandruff shampoo. It's available from a pharmacy and I don't think you need a prescription for it.

matthewmcmetal

I have been using Bioxsine shampoo and found its made my existing hair a lot healthier and strengthened the weak strands at the front that were thinning. I have not used the vial of it yet but I think I will

kaiboy

BuyingorSelling wrote: »

Has anyone gone to one, if so where, for what treatment and did you find it good

Thinking of trying the one in george's street to maybe get some wonder shampoo to stop the auld balding process

Dont bother with that place for shampoos or treatments, didnt find it helped at all! It is a good place to get medication though.Provides 3 months supply of finasteride (propecia) for 100 euro which is the cheapest I know of! Rogaine and nizoral shampoo can be purchased in the chemist. This is the supposed best combiation to stop further hair loss and strengthen and thicken thinning hair and what I use myself personally.

Ailesbury hair clinic has a new non invasive technique for replacing hair whic I have researched and is defo something I shall be looking into in the future if my situation worsens. Actually have an appt there in a couple of weeks to find out more but I already know they recommend the above medications in the early stages of hair loss.

BumbleB

Tried all that rubbish ,every medicine you put in your body has side effects some of which may not showup for years .Shaved mine off best thing I've ever done .

Handsome Bob

I won't tell anyone what to do, it's all about what makes you confident and I know the shaved head doesn't suit me. Personally, it does suit me so I don't see the merit on spending vast amount of money on something I don't really need.

donalmm

I have been using that bioxsine stuff for around 6 months now and Ill have to say it has made a difference to my hair. I have been on the serum and shampoo, it took a good while to start working but it has defo helped my

coolperson05

Could I ask if these products ie. Nizoral or Rogaine are suitable for people with thining hair at the back say, but the main problem is generally thin overall hair?! I'm only in my 20's so i'm hoping its more for thicking to style it then for balding

speedboatchase

coolperson05 wrote: »

Could I ask if these products ie. Nizoral or Rogaine are suitable for people with thining hair at the back say, but the main problem is generally thin overall hair?! I'm only in my 20's so i'm hoping its more for thicking to style it then for balding

If your hair is thin all over, rather than balding, you should invest in a thickening shampoo

Grid.

Seen this on TV3 last week and found it interesting.Worth watching for anyone considering HT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl3iZWsOaX0

mike65

My first ever thread on TGC!

The Irish Times runs a story about an accidental breakthrough in hair loss recovery here. Naturally even if all is shown to be well it'll be years before any development hits the streets. But if it were possible to go in to a "facility" and have a gene tweaked from X to Y to remove that cue-ball look at an affordable price would you?

MrStuffins

If it's not called "Demoxinil" i'm not using it!

tbh

mike65 wrote: »

My first ever thread on TGC!

The Irish Times runs a story about an accidental breakthrough in hair loss recovery here. Naturally even if all is shown to be well it'll be years before any development hits the streets. But if it were possible to go in to a "facility" and have a gene tweaked from X to Y to remove that cue-ball look at an affordable price would you?

of course! if there was no down side, why wouldn't you? but if they said there was even 1% chance of long lasting side effects, then no

krudler

Depends, if it was safe then yeah, what guy wouldnt tbh. I wouldnt mind if I go grey, but bald I dont want to, dont have the head for it lol

crazyderk

I wanted to get the guys opinion on this

I'm 28 and I shower, shampoo and shave everyday, well sometimes I'll skip it on a sunday!

main reasons are

1. I feel a lot better and fresher throughout the day and other obvious reasons

2.it makes it easier to shave

3.I would then also use gel in my hair everyday and need to wash it out in order to get the control I need for my messed up spikes!

I remember hearing some tale of if you shower/shampoo and mess with your hair everyday this will ultimitaly cause baldness due to washing away the natural oils on your head or something

is there any truth to this? and if there is,
Is prevention better than cure! Am i better being smelly and hairy or clean and bald?

Red Hand

I shower maybe twice a day, but use very little soap/shampoo. Your skin is naturally acidic and soaps are often alkaline, so it doesn't make sense to be stripping the body of it's friendly bacteria. I don't use shampoo every day, maybe every 3rd day, usually I rinse my hair clean.

krudler

I've recently stopped washing my hair every day, I used to, sometimes I shower twice, depends on how badly I want those extra few mins in bed before work in the morning lol. Now I wash my hair every 2 days, I have hair thats a pain in the arse to get it to do what I want with gel or wax in it unless its freshly washed, so thats annoying, but its no harm to go a day or 2 without washing it tbh. I use an electric clippers rather than wet shave, havent been clean shaven in about 2 years just keep my stubble short. I do shave my neck and around my chinline alright and for that I use shaving foam

Nah, bald is sexy. Not just saying that because I'm receding :eek:

Dravokivich

Wouldn't use it myself.

Wibbs

tbh wrote: »

of course! if there was no down side, why wouldn't you?

That would be my take. If you like the shaved look, then you can shave it, if you like the long haired look, then you can grow it. You would have the choice that being bald takes away. As for risks? Well anything can have risks, but in this case, I cant see what risks there would be unless the stem cells had more chances of becoming cancerous maybe?

foxyboxer

I've been bald so long, I think I would look strange with hair at this stage. :cool:

BATEMAN2010

Has anyone here been prescribed Propecia Hair Loss pills by a GP in Dublin?
If so where?

Am trying to get the pills from a regular GP and not a specialist hair loss clinic as they charge a fortune for a consultation.

entropi

I shower every day, two days it'll be twice a day due to training schedule, but I only wash my hair every 3 days, this gives it time to restore sebum in the follicle and help regenerate the hair shaft, as hinted at above. I dont use anything like gel either, I find that it damages my hair if I use it often enough.

As for shaving, well you can shave every day if you like but it will be harsh on your skin so unless your job or a skin condition calls for it, there's no real need to. And to add: I use an anti-bacterial shaving gel (King of Shaves) and it works very well.

Each to their own I suppose, but washing your hair every day is gonna do damage to it so let it slide to two or even three days and it'll help imho:)

SandStone

It isn't licensed for hair loss treatment in Ireland, so you can't legally get it.

Snowie

Shower every morning...Start of with the shower bring really warm and wsh my self then cool of the shower to close of my skin again.... And cold water allway wakes you up followed bye a warm cup of columbian coffee

shave well the last time I shaved was well I cant remember I just trim my hair with my beard clippers

mickman

Master of Nothing wrote: »

I shower every day, two days it'll be twice a day due to training schedule, but I only wash my hair every 3 days, this gives it time to restore sebum in the follicle and help regenerate the hair shaft, as hinted at above. I dont use anything like gel either, I find that it damages my hair if I use it often enough.

As for shaving, well you can shave every day if you like but it will be harsh on your skin so unless your job or a skin condition calls for it, there's no real need to. And to add: I use an anti-bacterial shaving gel (King of Shaves) and it works very well.

Each to their own I suppose, but washing your hair every day is gonna do damage to it so let it slide to two or even three days and it'll help imho:)

i wash my hair every second day and use brylcream every day for years and years , its either that or go around looking stupid with a big dry head !

its the old brylcream stuff, the cream rather than the gel and i have a fine thick head of hair. if you have the tendancy to go bald then its going to happen whatever you do

Sid_Justice

what do people mean by "shampooing your hair every day will damage it" like my hair is kept short so ultimately any damaged hair gets cut anyway. Do you mean damage to the follicle?

Otis Driftwood

I shampoo my hair every day and it is ridiculously thick.If you are going to go bald you are going to go bald IMO.

piby

I'd like to say that I'm not that superficial but I probably would if it went on the market.

I think ethically I would use something like this that arose as a unintended consequence of other research but for the most part I think it disgraceful that there's any money at all directly spent on 'curing' a natural phenomena that happens to 50% of men when there's people going hungry or dying of curable diseases in the world.

Wibbs

There's far more money that goes into makeup, hair products for both sexes, fashion for both and many many other trivial things. Theres probably more money spent on razor blade development. Who ever thought humans were good at prioritising?

As for it being a natural thing? So is aging and if we could find a cure for that. Most diseases arise out of natural processes and through no fault of the individual. We can already feed the world.Little research required. Yet we dont. Its an interesting if thorny moral dilemma alright.

mike65

There is a fair chance that whoever perfects the science will be killed by Loreal